Fifteen year old gifted teenager Ruslan Chutko longs to do good and help the police to identify offenses under the pseudonym Plumbum. Plumbum decides in a single provincial town to eradicate the evil. However, in his interest of being a fighter against evil he goes far beyond what is permitted in a children's play and ends up ruthlessly invading people's lives.
Acting
Anton Androsov's chillingly believable descent
Direction
Abdrashitov's clinical observation of moral rot
Writing
Screenplay that trusts audience to judge, not preach
Director
Vadim Abdrashitov
Anton Androsov
Ruslan Chutko - «Plumbum»
Yelena Dmitriyeva
Sonya Orekhova
Elena Yakovleva
Mariya
Zoya Lirova
Zoya Chutko - Ruslan's mother
Aleksandr Feklistov
Roman Ivanovich - «Sedoy»
Vladimir Steklov
Lopatov
Aleksandr Pashutin
Viktor Chutko - Ruslan's father
Aleksey Zaytsev
Kolya Oleg - homeless
Larisa Shinova
«Tkachikha»
Sergey Serov
Panov
Gennadi Frolov
«Banan»
Vyacheslav Baranov
«khuligan»
Vladimir Sterzhakov
barmen
Aleksey Mikhaylov
«Tarik» - Mary's fiancé
Vladimir Sizov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during glasnost, this was Abdrashitov and screenwriter Aleksandr Mindadze's second collaboration exploring how Soviet systems bred private tyrants.
The pseudonym 'Plumbum' (Latin for lead) references both police bullets and alchemy—Ruslan literally tries to transmute himself into gold through others' suffering.
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